DOI Artikel:
Bieliński, Piotr: Tell Rad Shaqrah 1992 - the fifth season of explorations in northeast Syria
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.26425#0125
Another entrance leading to locus 1/A was cleared near the
southeastern comer of the room in its southern wall. It was ca 60
cm wide and led to another room, locus 3/A, adjoining locus 1/A
from the south and belonging to the same building. A larger part
of it was cleared during this season, revealing that it was only 1.7
m wide and at least 3.8 m long. In its western part the room
contained a very carefully made and gypsum-plastered basin
installation. The roofing of the room was destroyed by fire and
thus on the floor there were numerous charred fragments of
wooden beams as well as other burnt fragments of the ceiling.
Excavations of the rest of the building will be continued.
The substantial rampart with its stone glacis was found again
only in trench A-2. The newly uncovered fragment has slightly
different orientation than the fragment excavated last year which
run along a NNW-SSE axis. The wall investigated within trench
A-2 follow basically a N-S axis, meaning that somewhere in the
rather resticted area between trenches A and A-2 it changed
direction. The part of the wall unearthed in trench A-2 reveals
new data on its construction; it is not homogenous and has no
straight face line as the previously discovered fragment. There is
an angular recess about 2 m deep at the junction of two separate
wall segments. The stone glacis which follows the fagade
protected this sensitive spot especially well. To the south of this
recess the wall was 2 m wide, much less compared to the
northern fragment, which is of the same width as the fragment
explored earlier in trench A, that is 3.9 m. On the inner side of
the narrower segment of the big wall a fragment of a very narrow
room has been exposed. This room (locus 4/A) was only about 1
m wide and at least 2 m long. Its well plastered mudbrick walls
were preserved to a height of over 1.7 m. There were at least two
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southeastern comer of the room in its southern wall. It was ca 60
cm wide and led to another room, locus 3/A, adjoining locus 1/A
from the south and belonging to the same building. A larger part
of it was cleared during this season, revealing that it was only 1.7
m wide and at least 3.8 m long. In its western part the room
contained a very carefully made and gypsum-plastered basin
installation. The roofing of the room was destroyed by fire and
thus on the floor there were numerous charred fragments of
wooden beams as well as other burnt fragments of the ceiling.
Excavations of the rest of the building will be continued.
The substantial rampart with its stone glacis was found again
only in trench A-2. The newly uncovered fragment has slightly
different orientation than the fragment excavated last year which
run along a NNW-SSE axis. The wall investigated within trench
A-2 follow basically a N-S axis, meaning that somewhere in the
rather resticted area between trenches A and A-2 it changed
direction. The part of the wall unearthed in trench A-2 reveals
new data on its construction; it is not homogenous and has no
straight face line as the previously discovered fragment. There is
an angular recess about 2 m deep at the junction of two separate
wall segments. The stone glacis which follows the fagade
protected this sensitive spot especially well. To the south of this
recess the wall was 2 m wide, much less compared to the
northern fragment, which is of the same width as the fragment
explored earlier in trench A, that is 3.9 m. On the inner side of
the narrower segment of the big wall a fragment of a very narrow
room has been exposed. This room (locus 4/A) was only about 1
m wide and at least 2 m long. Its well plastered mudbrick walls
were preserved to a height of over 1.7 m. There were at least two
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